Advanced Sidebar Menu
Fully automatic sidebar menus.
4.5(37 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, Advanced Sidebar Menu is a WordPress menus plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 37 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.4M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.2.0+ and PHP 7.4.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 7% this week. Top alternative: User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility.
4.5/537 reviews
10K+active installs
1.4M+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Fully automatic sidebar menus.
Uses the parent/child relationship of your pages or categories to generate menus based on the current section of your site. Assign a page or category to a parent and Advanced Sidebar Menu will do the rest for you.
Keeps the menu clean and usable. Only related items display, so you don’t have to worry about keeping a custom menu up to date or displaying links to items that don’t belong.
Blocks are available to display menus where you need them. Look for the “Advanced Sidebar – Pages” block, or the “Advanced Sidebar – Categories” block. Widgets are also available for page builders or sites using classic widgets.
Developed and Supported by OnPoint Plugins.
Documentation
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Really useful product
by tomsugar1·1 year ago
I downloaded and installed it , and while there wasn’t an option of floating icons I wanted, it got the job done
Pro version is a disaster
by WillOfTheWeb·2 years ago·1 reply
The pro version of this plugin is a disaster. As soon as you activate it, it renders your menu items invisible. Also to get the full benefit of it you have to install the Classic Sidebar plugin as the block version is terrible.
Doesn’t work
by omigosh·2 years ago
I’d love to have a plugin like this but I can’t make it work. Best I can do is make a list of categories, but I can’t get it to list individual posts within a category. Tried everything. Nothing works. Not even sure if it’s supposed to display individual posts in a category. There’s no information in what might be laughlingly called ‘Documentation’. I spent a large chunk of my day trying to make this thing work and it simply does not work.
great plugin !
by EleanorR Greenawalt·3 years ago
Thanks to developers, I just got what I wanted!
Very helpful and well written plugin – Support is above & beyond expecations
by deeholzman·3 years ago
This plugin is extremely helpful in organizing our large site side navigation with many sections and sub sections. It’s also very customizable and easy to set up.
It’s extremely well thought out and can be used right out of the box or heavily customized.
Download Trends
Today: 48Yesterday: 70This week: 353Period total: 82K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.2.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v9.8
49.6%
Other
30.7%
v9.6
8.8%
v9.7
5.7%
v9.0
5.1%
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Changelog
9.8.3
- Added JSON serialization to block attributes.
- Improved block attribute translation naming.
- Removed temporary common attribute filters.
- Tested to WordPress Core 6.9.0.
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